Winter means it’s time for the annual Slater Mill Knitting Weekend & Fiber Art Marketplace, Jan. 20 to Jan. 22, at the historic mill in Rhode Island. Sign up for special events, classes, such as going “behind the scenes” with Dylan Uscher, a working knitwear designer and Rhode Island School of Design. Also, artists and noted knitwear designers Ellen Mason and Alison Green, recent designs by the Berroco Design. Textile art exhibition. Artists members of the Surface Design Association, MA-RI Chapter present Fiber in the Present Tense, an exhibition traveling to Slate Mill from the Arsenal Center for the Arts in Watertown, Mass. Classes.
The Fiber Art Marketplace is Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; free and open to the public with yarn producers, spinners, dyers, and micro-farmers in New England. On-site demonstrations of spinning, weaving, and knitting. The Slater Mill gift shop will also be open. Vendors include: Ball and Skein, Bosworth Spindles, Dancing Threads RI, Dirty Water DyeWorks, Dursin Merino, Evergreen Farm, Foxhill Farm, Katrinkles, Purgatory Falls Alpaca, Rag Hill Farm, RI Hook & Needle (bake sale!); Romney Ridge Farm, Shallow Pond Farm, Sweet Sheep Body Shoppe, Tidal Yarns, Upton Yarns, We Got the Buttons. We’ve provided a handy link for readers.
A three-part story about one old mill and a visit to the Slater Mill, part one linked here.